'If in doubt,say no':why phone apps want permission to use your personal data
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Apps

'If in doubt,say no':why phone apps want permission to use your personal data

Apps are a gateway to your personal data. Are they spying on you? How do you outsmart your smartphone?

  • byTim Biggs

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'Unaccountable titans':New Labor senator calls for controversial Google tax to'disrupt the disrupters'

'Unaccountable titans':New Labor senator calls for controversial Google tax to'disrupt the disrupters'

Tony Sheldon has blasted major companies like Google and Facebook for"failing our economy and our democracy".

  • byMax Koslowski
ABBA was right:Rockonomics shows why the winner often takes it all
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Opinion

ABBA was right:Rockonomics shows why the winner often takes it all

The music industry can teach us a lot in the age of digital disruption.

  • byRoss Gittins
A happy medium? Why screens are not all bad
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Parenting

A happy medium? Why screens are not all bad

Are screens innately bad for children? How much is too much? Is there anything good about children gaming? We ask the experts.

  • byFelicity Lewis andLiam Mannix
Who pays for Google and Facebook's free lunch?
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Opinion

Who pays for Google and Facebook's free lunch?

There may be banks that are too big to be allowed to fail,but don’t imagine the behemoths of the digital revolution are too big to be regulated.

  • byRoss Gittins
Give economists a PC and they start making more sense
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Opinion

Give economists a PC and they start making more sense

One of the biggest,long-running economic stories of our time is the way the digital revolution is disrupting one industry after another.

  • byRoss Gittins
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How to keep the news coming
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How to keep the news coming

There may come a day when newspapers will no longer exist and unless companies can find a way to make their digital products adequately profitable,it’s possible even this could cease.

  • byRoss Gittins
Greens push to enshrine digital rights while spruiking lead candidate

Greens push to enshrine digital rights while spruiking lead candidate

The federal Greens will look to repeal the mandatory data retention scheme and set up a digital rights commissioner.

  • byKatie Burgess
Digital disruption is changing us for better and worse
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Opinion

Digital disruption is changing us for better and worse

The rise of the internet and other aspects of the digital revolution has changed our working and private lives – mainly for the better. But all technological advance has its downside.

  • byRoss Gittins